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LITERATURE II
Teacher: Lic. Alberto Santamaría
Students: a) Edwar Emilio Olmedo Martínez
b) Alejandro Peña
Date: Thursday, March 23, 17
Elements of the short story:
Characters:
- Direct characterization: Toby Dammit,
Toby Dammit´s mother, Toby Dammit´s
friend, the little lame old gentleman.
- Indirect characterization: Mr. Coleridge,
Mr. Kant, Mr. Emerson.
Setting:
a) Toby Dammit´s home, the river and the
bridge.
b) Time: Past (deceased Toby Dammit)
Plot
a) External conflicts: between Toby Dammit and
his friend.
b) Internal conflicts: It occurs in Toby Dammit´s
mind.
Five stages of the plot:
a) Exposition: Toby Dammit had many vices, he
had many chastisements from his mother at
home, and he went on increasing his iniquity.
b) Rising action: Toby Dammit came to be a man
and he liked to use the formula “I´ll bet you so
and so” in all his assertions.
c) Climax: Toby Dammit offered to bet the
devil his head that he could leap the stile,
and cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air.
d) Falling action: Toby Dammit was
deprived of his head.
e) Resolution: Toby Dammit´s friend was
right because Toby was not able to leap the
stile; Toby was a stubborn person.
POINT OF VIEW:
It´s first person point of view because the
narrator is a character in the short story,
that is, Toby Dammit´s friend.
THEMES:
a) Vices and bets
b) Mistreatment
c) Pain
d) Poverty
e) Lack of consciousness
f) Pride
g) Anger
h) Death

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NEVER BET THE DEVIRL YOUR HEAD written by Edgar Allan Poe

  • 1.
  • 2. LITERATURE II Teacher: Lic. Alberto Santamaría Students: a) Edwar Emilio Olmedo Martínez b) Alejandro Peña Date: Thursday, March 23, 17
  • 3. Elements of the short story: Characters: - Direct characterization: Toby Dammit, Toby Dammit´s mother, Toby Dammit´s friend, the little lame old gentleman. - Indirect characterization: Mr. Coleridge, Mr. Kant, Mr. Emerson.
  • 4. Setting: a) Toby Dammit´s home, the river and the bridge. b) Time: Past (deceased Toby Dammit)
  • 5. Plot a) External conflicts: between Toby Dammit and his friend. b) Internal conflicts: It occurs in Toby Dammit´s mind.
  • 6. Five stages of the plot: a) Exposition: Toby Dammit had many vices, he had many chastisements from his mother at home, and he went on increasing his iniquity. b) Rising action: Toby Dammit came to be a man and he liked to use the formula “I´ll bet you so and so” in all his assertions.
  • 7. c) Climax: Toby Dammit offered to bet the devil his head that he could leap the stile, and cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air. d) Falling action: Toby Dammit was deprived of his head. e) Resolution: Toby Dammit´s friend was right because Toby was not able to leap the stile; Toby was a stubborn person.
  • 8. POINT OF VIEW: It´s first person point of view because the narrator is a character in the short story, that is, Toby Dammit´s friend.
  • 9. THEMES: a) Vices and bets b) Mistreatment c) Pain d) Poverty e) Lack of consciousness f) Pride g) Anger h) Death